PERSONAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2647, 18 December 1915, Page 5

PERSONAL ITEMS

The Hon. 'A. L. Herdman returned from Nelson yesterday morning.

The Hfin. Dr. 'M'Nab returned last ovening from Hastings.

The Hon. W. D. S. Mac Donald came back to Wellington yesterday aftejr n tour of the West Coast of ( the South Island. •

The Hon. Dr. Pomaro left Wellington for"Kotorua. last,night.

Cable advice received by Mr. P.. M'Coll, superintending engineer at the municipal power and lighting station, states' that his son, Lieut. A. B. M'Coll, Wellington Infantry,' who left Now Zealand with the Main Body of the . Expeditionary Force, Las been promoted captain. Captain M'Coll stated that he was enjoying excellent health.

The Rev. F. Stubbs,- F.R.G.S., left Wellington last night by the Paloona., He is travelling through ■ both Islands in order that ho may note tho various changes and A improvements that hava taken place during recent years. In March lie hopes to start for a series of visits in tho Far East.

The friends of Mr. Gerald Lyon will bo'interested to learn that, he has t«-. ceived promotion at, tho front to . the rank of temporary second lieutenant. Lieutenant Lyon left here - with tho Main Body as a gunner in the 3rd Battery N.Z.F.A., was N.C.O. in Egypt, and. now that lie has received a commission, has boon posted to No. I Battery. Landing on tlio fifth day after the firet landing .at Anzac, Lieutenant Lyon has been continuously on Gallipoli Peninsula, and in spite of many narrow escapes has como scathlesa through tlio ordeal.

The Rev. T. H. Radford, of Wanganni,' is visiting Napier.

Mr. E. Bessell, headmaster of the Ongaonga School, has been-appointed to ft similar position at. Port Ahuriri.

Mr.. E. Evans- has been ' appointed junior assistant at the Island Bay School. •

Mr. W. R. Hazelden, who has been a relieving Stipendiary Magistrate for a considerable time, and was formerly a District Court, Judge, is to be permanently stationed at Hawera, vice Mr. Kenrick, who has been granted extended leave of obsence on account of the state of his health.

. The following school .teachers have been granted extended leave in. order to join the Expeditionary Forces: —Mr. G. Duncan, head teacher,' Waikanae; Mr. C- Matheson, sole teacher, Pirinoa; Mr. C. Robertson,' assistant, NorMr. D; Bowler, assistant, Normal; Mr." H. S. M. Sanson, pupil teacher, Karori. .

Mr. It. J. Foss, bead teacher at Fernj ridge School, has been appointed to tho position of acting-headmaster of the Carterton .District^ High School, in place of Major Cowles,' who is 'ahsent on military.duty. ■*.

The following are, gazetted , members of. the Surveyors' Board under the Surveyor's Institute andi Board of Examiners Act:—Messrs. T. Humphries. , ;and R. T. Sadd (nominated by the Minister of. Lands), and H. Sladden and J. C. ' Simmonds (nominated by the Council of. the Institute)'. ■ • ' •,

The ship Blenheim arrived; in Wellington on Christmas Eve, 1810, frith 300 Scottish settlers. ■ There are six of these emigrants still living, and. Mrs. A. Martin, sen., and Mr. J. Brown, Upper Hutt, tiro two of these. . ; /

Mr. J. B. Morton, of Onehunga, well known in football circles as the Tarariaki delegates on the council of the New Zealand Kugby Football League, is. at present dangerously ill in'the Auckland Hospital,

Lieutenant Blake,, Canterbury Bat l talion, reported killed , in. action, was a son of Mr. ;V. BlalteV of tho. Gisbo'rne Land and Survey ; Office. Lieutenant Blake was a surveyor, and was engaged ill survey work in the Auckland Province when he enlisted. He left New Zealand with the Sixth Reinforcements, receiving a commission just prior to the departure of the troops.'. ■.

Dr. E. W. Sharman, who has been appointed a member of . tho medical staff to accompany'' the " Ninth Reinforcements, left Auckland for tho camp at P&lmerston North on Wednesday.

: Dr. Jessie Scott, lJitely of Auckland, now in the Balkan hubbub, performing tuedical service in Serbia, wrote after iier 'departure for that distressful country, resigning tho position she had held lis one of the staff of honorary anaesthetists to the Auckland Hospital. The Hospital Board decided to ask Dr. Scott to reconsider her resignation, and -granted 'her leave of absence instead; and this week the board received a note all the way from Serbia in which Dr. Scott' thanked them for their consideration in tho matter, and withdrew her resignation, accepting' the leave of absence granted. . - ,

The Auckland Education Board has appointed Mr. Richard P. Connell, M.A., Instructor in Agriculture. Mr. Connell is-a graduate of Otago University, and has had - seven years' teaching experience, including, over two years as secondary assistant in the Tomuka District High School, where special attention was devoted to • agricultural education.. Mr. Council is.at present assistant instructor' in agriculture .in the North Canterbury Education District. He will take up bis duties in Auckland on February 1, 1916.